Superconductivity in MgB2: Clean or dirty?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1070021-1070024

  Mazin, I I ^a,b,c   Andersen, O K ^a,d   Jepsen, O ^a,b,d   Dolgov, O V ^a,b,d   Kortus, J ^a,b,c   Golubov, A A ^a,b   Kuz'Menko, A B ^a,b,c   Van Der Marel, D ^a,b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERMI LEVEL; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; PHONONS; PLASMAS;

CRITICAL TEMPERATURE;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0037009609     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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